As a child I was always drawing, painting or immersed in a craft project. I also loved reading and would disappear for hours in books about historical fiction or sci-fi fantasy. When I was 12 years old I took Saturday morning art classes at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha Nebraska. I enjoyed those classes but my keenest memory was of the joy I felt while wandering through all the exhibits in the museum after class; exhilarated and fascinated by the history and the art, I was lost in antiquity and my imagination was running wild. I studied painting and drawing in college and later after years of oil painting I became intrigued with the art of batik, an ancient textile craft using layers of wax and fabric dye. Right then I knew I found my new medium and I haven’t oil painted since. A Complex Cloth workshop and a two and half year Mastery Program with Jane Dunnewold which introduced me to more ways to enrich textile surfaces has sealed my fate! Dyeing fabric, removing color with discharge, mixing and matching color with textile paints, adding layers using printmaking, hand painting, and sometimes stitching or beading for accent, have enhanced the dimension of my work. I love the process of planning of a new piece; creating a story, researching and choosing imagery, creating the tools, experimenting with colors and textures to support the imagery, deciding on the sequence of steps, orchestrating it all into a successful composition and then documenting each part of the process. There is a profound depth of beauty, vulnerability, and sensuality in the female silhouette that speaks to me. Every opportunity to draw from the figure teaches and inspires me. Often a drawing will speak to me with a certain idea or impression that I feel compelled to explore. From there I start to create a story, build a world, or choose a myth or goddess that I feel depicts the figure I have chosen to work with. I am looking forward to continuing to explore the connections I have created between dreams, myth and story through imagery of the female form.